Hello and welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast. My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 46, Day 5 of Your English Five a Day. This is the series that is dedicated to expanding your English vocabulary, improving your listening, and just keeping you company for the next 15 or so minutes. So let's get started with today's episode with a noun, and it is role reversal, role reversal. Two words. Role, R O L E. Reversal, R E V E R S A L reversal. Role reversal is a situation in which two people exchange their usual duties or positions, a role reversal. So in the household, if you and your partner both have your set duties, things that you do automatically; perhaps you go out to work and earn the money to pay the household bills. And you're also in charge of doing the grocery shopping and the cooking. And your partner perhaps is responsible for the wraparound care. So dropping the children off at school, picking them up and taking care of them after school and doing more household chores like laundry, cleaning, that kind of thing. And gardening. So those are your roles. If we were to introduce a role reversal, then you would stay at home more, offering wraparound care and doing the cleaning, while your partner goes out to work and earns the majority of the money to pay the bills. So that's a role reversal. Here's another example of role reversal being used in a sentence,"In the play, the clever role reversal of the hero and villain characters added an interesting plot twist that the audience didn't anticipate." Moving on to the next item on the list, we have a phrasal verb, and it is to tuck in, to tuck into something. Tuck in, T U C K, tuck. In, I N. To tuck in is to start eating something eagerly. So, imagine you're quite hungry. Maybe you skipped breakfast and it's lunchtime and you have really worked up an appetite and then someone puts down in front of you a plate full of your favourite food. What would that be? What's your favourite meal? Imagine now someone's put that plate of food in front of you and you are really hungry. Then they'll say to you,"Go on, tuck in." Or,"Go ahead, eat." And you start eating. You are not going to be slow and measured. You will go in straight away, getting a huge forkful of that food, and shovelling it into your mouth,"Mm, mm, mm." You are going to eat it eagerly. You are going to tuck in. Here's another example,"I love tucking into a cold ice cream on a hot summer's day. Mmm." Okay, next on the list is the verb savour, savour, to savour something. We spell this S A V O U R to savour. Mmm. To savour is to enjoy food or to enjoy an experience, but slowly. So this is all about enjoyment. If you have one chocolate after your meal and it's one of your most favourite chocolates, you know it's going to be absolutely delicious. Will you just throw it into your mouth, chew it up and swallow quickly? Or will you take your time, allowing it to stay in your mouth for slightly longer than normal so that you can enjoy every second of that chocolate on your taste buds? Well, if you do that, if you take your time, then you are savouring it. As parents, we are always reminded, especially on social media, to savour every moment with our children. Reminded that time goes by so fast and children grow up so quickly that we should savour every moment that we have. In fact, we should do that in life in general, everything that's positive, everything we enjoy, we should savour it, rather than always looking forward. We should savour the moments that we have in the here and now. Here's an example sentence,"Laura savoured every bite of the meal, which had been cooked by a famous chef." Next on the list is the verb pamper, pamper. We spell this P A M P E R, pamper. To pamper is to give someone a very special treatment, making them feel as comfortable as possible and as special as possible and giving them whatever it is they want to pamper them. You would normally do this to someone who maybe is about to have a baby. You would pamper them. We even have like special days that you can organise that would be called a pamper day or a pamper treatment. For example, if my best friend was about to have a baby and I want to celebrate with her, the fact that she's going to become a mum, then I might book a day at a spa so we could have a pamper session. We would have a massage and a facial, maybe get our nails done, maybe have a foot massage. You definitely need that when you're heavily pregnant. And I would want to make her feel special and as relaxed as possible. I want to pamper her. So there we go. Have you ever been pampered? Have you ever pampered anyone? Here's an example,"I can't wait to be pampered at the 5-star hotel this weekend." Last on the list today is the verb overwhelm, overwhelm. We spell this O V E R W H E L M, overwhelm, overwhelm. To overwhelm is to cause someone to feel sudden, strong emotion. Usually so that the emotion is released. So for example, if I'm watching a news story, a sad one, sometimes when they show me the images of what's actually going on, the people who are suffering, or if they play music in the background while showing these pictures of these very unfortunate people in a terrible situation, then I might feel like I'm being overwhelmed by sadness and I might start to cry. If I have too much stress, and then someone brings me another problem, they might overwhelm me with their problems and overwhelm me with stress. And I might just suddenly collapse on the floor and say,"I can't do this anymore. I can't do it. I'm overwhelmed. You have overwhelmed me." If I'm at a comedy gig and I'm watching a very funny comedian, they might overwhelm me with their jokes and I might burst out laughing. I might laugh so hard that I start crying. So to be overwhelmed. If someone overwhelms you, then you become overwhelmed. Here's an example sentence,"She was overwhelmed by the support she received after her husband died." Okay. That's our five for today. So let's do a quick recap. We started with the noun role reversal, which is a situation where two people exchange their usual duties or position. Then we had the phrasal verb tuck in, to tuck into something is to start eating it eagerly. We had the verb savour, to savour, which is to enjoy your food or an experience slowly so that you can enjoy it as much as possible. We had the verb pamper, which is to give someone special treatment, making them feel really comfortable and giving them whatever they want. We had the verb overwhelm, to overwhelm someone, which is to suddenly make them feel very strong emotion. Okay, let's do this now for pronunciation purposes. Please repeat after me. Role reversal. Role reversal. Tuck in. Tuck in. Savour. Savour. Pamper. Pamper. Overwhelm. Overwhelm. Very good. Okay. What's the verb that you would use if you want to tell someone to enjoy their food really slowly in order to enjoy it? Savour. Yes, savour your food. Enjoy every moment of it. And if you are going to treat someone in a really special way, and you're going to make them feel very relaxed, what are you going to do? What verb would we use? Pamper. Absolutely. Now, if someone is feeling a little bit stressed, and everyone is going to that person, asking them more and more questions, and asking for help, and saying,"Hey, hey, I need your attention." We might cause that person to have sudden, very strong. emotions. They might feel quite stressed, anxious, angry. What verb would we use here? What are we doing? We are overwhelming that person. So we should all, all take a step back and maybe decide to pamper that person instead. Now if there's a situation where two people exchange their usual duties, what noun could we use there? There's a role reversal. Yes. And finally, if I put a delicious meal in front of you, and I want you to start eating eagerly, then what phrasal verb would I use? Tuck in. Don't wait for me. Tuck in. Enjoy your food. Savour every moment. Fantastic. Let's now listen out for these items once again in today's storytime. Jenkins had always been a loyal servant, dedicated to his master, Lord Holmes. Whenever his master was in need of something, Jenkins was there, even if it was in the middle of the night. But sometimes he wondered what it would be like to be a Lord, not a butler. The next day, Jenkins was up at dawn to start work. As he was getting ready, he heard a knock at the door. Before he had time to ask who was there, the door swung open. In the doorway stood his master, dressed as a butler and holding a tray with a delicious breakfast on it."What are you doing up? You'll need to get back into bed to have breakfast in bed," said Lord Holmes. Jenkins stared at his master in shock. He couldn't find the words to protest. Lord Holmes led him back into his bed and put the tray on his lap. In front of Jenkins was a pot of fresh tea, a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice, a full English breakfast and toast and butter. The breakfast he normally served to the master! Oh, it smelled so good that he couldn't help himself. He tucked into the bacon, eggs and sausage, savouring every bite. As he did, Lord Holmes started ironing the paper for him. Normally Jenkins did this for his master, so he wouldn't get ink on his fingers as he read the news. Jenkins was overwhelmed by the role reversal, but couldn't deny how good it felt to be pampered for once. As he sipped his tea, he noticed Lord Holmes carefully folding his freshly ironed newspaper and placing it beside him. Was this a joke? A dream? Did he wish this situation into reality? Jenkins wouldn't find out what was really happening until the next day. And when he did, the reality would have much worse consequences than he ever imagined. And that brings us to the end of today's episode and to the end of Week 46. If you found today useful, then please do take a second to leave a like if you're watching on YouTube. And if you're streaming on any other platform, then consider leaving a rating or review so that others may find this podcast too. Until next week, take very good care and goodbye.